Bible Verses About Prayer
Prayer is speaking with God as Father. These verses invite you to ask, seek and knock, to pray without ceasing and with thanksgiving, and they promise that God hears and that the Spirit helps us when we do not know what to pray.
14 verses about prayer (KJV)
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Guided journeys on prayer
Go deeper one day at a time: each day is a passage, a reflection, a question and a prayer.
Learning to Pray
7 days on how Jesus taught us to pray
- Day 1: Pray in secret — Matthew 6:5-8“And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.…”
- Day 2: Our Father — Matthew 6:9-13“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our…”
- Day 3: Ask, seek, knock — Matthew 7:7-11“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that…”
- Day 4: Keep on praying — Luke 18:1-8“And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man…”
- Day 5: The Spirit helps us — Romans 8:26-28“Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which…”
- Day 6: A clean heart — Psalms 51:1-10“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity…”
- Day 7: Pray for one another — James 5:13-16“Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him…”
Fasting & Seeking God
7 days on fasting, prayer and humility
- Day 1: When you fast — Matthew 6:16-18“Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have…”
- Day 2: The fast God chooses — Isaiah 58:6-11“Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to…”
- Day 3: Fasting and mourning — Nehemiah 1:4-11“And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, And said, I beseech thee, O…”
- Day 4: Seeking a right way — Ezra 8:21-23“Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our…”
- Day 5: For such a time as this — Esther 4:12-17“And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words. Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews. For…”
- Day 6: Confessing and seeking mercy — Daniel 9:3-9“And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and…”
- Day 7: Fasting and sending — Acts 13:1-3“Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been…”
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Scripture text: King James Version (public domain).